Articles by Jawid Laiq

Conference Jawid Laiq How sensitive is the American and British 'quality' press to global women's issues? It claims to be fair, balanced and free in its reports and comments on world news events. It summarily rejects allegations of bias, prejudice, sensationalism, trivialisation and selectivity. These claims and allegations were tested by surveying reports and comments on the Beijing World Conference on Women and the accompanying NGO meet held in August-September 1995. Five publications controlled by US and British interests, with a wide circulation around the globe, and reputed to be serious and well-regarded journals, were surveyed.

the Holy Land Jawid Laiq Sharing the Promised Land: An Interwoven Tale of Israelis and Palestinians by Dilip Hire; Coronet Books, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1997; pp xxxxii+726,

Royal Insurance against Pressures from Within and Without Jawid Laiq Social and political tensions fuelled by oil revenues point to dramatic upheavals in the Gulf area, specially in Saudi Arabia and Oman, where sharply divisive dual economies have developed as a result of mistaken government policies.

In Malaysia, as in other former colonies like Sri Lanka, the pattern of physical and occupational separation between the races is a direct consequence of the plural economy and society created by colonial rule.